Possible to Bulk-Export Settings from Lightroom Album?

[michaeld10221376]

Hi! I have my Lightroom cloud currently synced to an old Lightroom Classic catalog that I've lost access to. Within LR cloud, I have a number of "synced" albums for which of course I can only download the Smart Previews and can't access ful-res copies. What I'm trying to do is recover the editing work I've done on those albums to try and re-apply the settings back to the original photos (which I still have access to) in Lightroom Classic. Is there any way to do this? It looks like my edits have been saved/imported as I can further edit the photos in Lightroom cloud, but I'm obviously hoping I don't have to go 1-by-1 and re-edit them to get full-res copies of the photos. 🙂

Any way to do this? Thanks in advance!

[Sameer K]

Hey, @michaeld10221376. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I'll help you figure this out. 

You can use the Lightroom downloader app to download the Smart Previews as DNG, as images originally uploaded from Lightroom Classic that only have a Smart Preview synced to the cloud, the app downloads DNG Smart Previews only for such photos that should carry the edits: https://adobe.ly/3WpcCVo

Let me know how it goes. Thanks! 
Sameer K

[AlexJz]

For LRC albums synced, what I'm often doing is adding manually the photos to Lightroom.

Most of the time, it recognises that it's the same pictures, as the Smart Preview, and uploads then Original.

Only sometimes it created duplicates; haven't found out why yet.

You can give it a try on a few pictures, checking whether it reconciles them.